Fun facts in the crypto world: “Bitcoin Pizza Day”

If you are a crypto enthusiast you probably taste that every May 22 is celebrated Bitcoin Pizza Day.

This is the day on which Laszlo Hanyecz, a programmer from Jacksonville, Florida who, considering the historical maximum to which the currency has reached, spent 3.9 billion dollars in bitcoin to buy pizzas.

Well over 10 years ago, Hanyecz posted on the Bitcointalk forum that he would pay 10,000 bitcoins for two large pizzas.

The man ordered his 2 pizzas from Papa John’s, as promised, and paid with 10,000 bitcoins which at the time cost him about $41.

However, the clever programmer is proud to have played a fundamental role in the construction of the universal phenomenon that bitcoin has become over the years.

This is one of the first Bitcoin transactions, the man said that his primary goal that night was not so much to buy a pizza as to prove that goods and services could be exchanged for BTC, as with classic fiat money, and to contribute to the adoption of the cryptocurrency, adding that: 9 months after the purchase, Bitcoin achieved parity with the US dollar, making both pizzas worth $10,000 and in 2015, the fifth anniversary of the Bitcoin Pizza Day, both pizzas were valued at $2.4 million.

Despite the astronomical increase in his pizzas, and in the cost of Bitcoin, Hanyecz seems unrepentant.